PITTIER—PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 487 
Fruit globose, about 12 mm. in diameter, the calyx apparently caducous and 
not accrescent. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,012,333, collected at Quirigua, 
Guatemala, May 31, 1919, by H. N. Whitford and L. R. Stadtmiller (no. 74). 
I refer with doubt to this species specimens collected between La Zumbadora 
and San Antonio, Department of Copin, Honduras, in flower, May 8, 1919 
(Pittier 8470), and at Quebradas, Department of Izabal, Guatemala, May 19, 
1919 (Pittier 8599). 
_ This species belongs to the group of V. pyramidata Robinson and V. gaumeri 
Greenm. From the first it differs in the indument, size, and shape of the leaves, 
in the hairy filaments, and in being a tree and not a shrub; from the latter it 
differs in the larger and reticulate leaflets, these cuneate at the base, and in 
the larger flowers with hairy and not pubescent filaments. The three species 
agree in their ample panicles and in their secondary characters. 
Vitex capitata Vahl, Eclog. Amer. 2: 50. pl. 18. 1798. 
A tree: new growth, petioles, rachis of the inflorescence, and lower face of 
the leaflets puberulous at first, glabrous at later stages. , 
Leaves 4 or 5-foliolate, appearing with the flowers, the petioles 6 to 12 cm. 
long, canaliculate, the petiolules 0.2 to 1 cm. long, the middle one longest ; 
leaflet blades ovate to lanceolate, cuneate-attenuate at the base, more or less 
abruptly acuminate, with the apex obtuse or acute, 4.5 to 12.5 cm. long, 1.5 to 
5 cm. broad, the costa impressed, the primary veins slightly prominent on the 
upper face, moderately conspicuous beneath, the reticulation very fine and 
inconspicuous, 
Cymes axillary, 3 to 6-flowered, short, subcapitate, the peduncles about 2 
cm. long, erect, the pedicels puberulous, 1.5 mm. long; bracts and bractlets 
caducous, not seen; calyx small, broadly campanulate, 2 mm. long or less, the 
margin sinuate or indistinctly 5-dentate; corolla large (17.5 mm. long); the 
tube 7.5 mm. long, puberulous without, hairy within at the insertion of the 
stamens, the lobes ovate to oblong, obtuse, more or less puberulous without, 
glabrescent within, the inferior median lobe 9.5 mm. long, the other lobes 
about 5 mm, long; stamens exserted, the filaments about 6.5 mm. long, hairy- 
puberulous at the base, glabrous above; anther cells strongly divaricate; ovary 
subglobose, glabrous except around the base of the style, this glabrous, equaling 
the stamens. 
Drupe about 7 mm. long, glabrous, 2-seeded, bearing at the base the patel- 
liform accrescent calyx. 
SPECIMEN EXAMINED: 
VENEZUELA: Sacupana, Orinoco Delta, flowers and fruit, April, 1896, Rusby 
é& Squires 84, 257. 
Distributed under the name of Viter cymosa Bertero, but clearly the same 
plant as the one reported from Trinidad, which is situated in front of the 
Orinoco Delta and has a very similar flora. 
CUCURBITACEAE. 
THE SPECIES OF CALYCOPHYSUM. 
The genus Calycophysum, established in 1854 by José Triana ™ 
upon specimens collected in the valleys of Cauca and Magdalena, 
Colombia, is closely related to Sicana, from which it differs mainly 
™ Nuevos jéneros i especies de plantas 20. 1854. 
